Dogs like to sniff each others’ trouser puckers to see who their friends are. If you were to go sniffing around the aft-end of today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda City, aka Bulldog what you’d smell is motorbike! Of course we’ll still have to see if its price stinks. »7/08/13 8:00am 7/08/13 8:00am

The lyrics to the metalcore band On Broken Wings' song Six Hundred Cubic Centimeters includes the line- I've got some questions, and I want them answered. That song is obviously about today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Honda Z600 coupe, and the question they want answered is undoubtably whether or not its price is a… »12/07/12 8:00am 12/07/12 8:00am

Japan's Kei cars are universally cool. So small they fit into a separate tax segment and require no proof of parking, they're a Tokyo urbanite's best friend. Now the new Nissan Roox looks like it's trying to fit in anywhere. »12/03/09 10:30am 12/03/09 10:30am

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Honda Life »11/06/08 4:00pm 11/06/08 4:00pm, one of the oldest minicars, dating back to the 1970s, is getting an upgrade. As a Kei car, the Life is limited to a 660 cc inline three-cylinder normally aspirated or turbocharged engine mated to a four-speed automatic transmission. Both AWD and FWD versions abound, including the base-model Life…

Kei cars are pretty cool, but what about Kei trucks? Have you envied the Japanese their ability to buy pocket-size 4x4 trucks that can go anywhere and carry decent loads while doing so? If you're willing to sacrifice street legality and stick to off-road use, it turns out you can buy late-model kei trucks for… »6/26/08 8:00am 6/26/08 8:00am

You don't see any Honda 600s on the street these days, although they didn't sell too badly back in the early 70s. You see them at car shows, and that's about it. That leads me to wonder where this example I spotted at an East Bay self-service wrecking yard has been hiding all these years. It looks like the interior is… »6/05/08 3:00pm 6/05/08 3:00pm

In addition to barging into a Tokyo Toyota showroom and shooting the latest Century, the folks at Japanese Nostalgic Car Magazine proceeded to take their act down the street to the nearest Subaru dealership, where they got some nice photos of the new R2. Make the jump for more photos and Ben Hsu's description.

We love us some weird Japanese-market car ads, and this one for the Cerbo Cervo is downright puzzling. The Cerbo Cervo makes with the rakish side-mirror moves, and the ladies are just on it like ants on candy. »1/24/08 11:30am 1/24/08 11:30am

Job one when we made our way into Bamberg on the first day was to replace the anemic and poorly appointed Mercedes B-Class rental (seriously, how does that thing wear a star?) with a far more capable and comfortable Audi A4 mit 2.0 TDi. While we were on this mission, we came across this spectacular beauty. Making … »12/24/07 3:30pm 12/24/07 3:30pm

Yes, Honda actually had to advertise their incredible 1971 600; apparently the lure of an air-cooled two-cylinder motorcycle engine powering a car approximately half the size of a typical American sedan just wasn't enough to make buyers stampede Honda's showrooms. The claim of 40MPG seems somewhat pessimistic,… »10/26/07 8:00am 10/26/07 8:00am

Perhaps the best part of living in Tokyo with your parents as a 29-year-old Web developer is the wide variety of vanlike vehicles at your disposal in the marketplace. Even at the micro, keicar level, such movable basements can provide the young, single male with the privacy mom and dad's flat never could. Mazda hears… »7/31/07 5:09pm 7/31/07 5:09pm